I think folks do expect "latest version" to point to "latest version of
this document" -- defined as the one that contains the latest version of
the same information.
Possible suggestion: Divide this into several links:
* Latest Version of This Module at This Level (for a pre-Recommendation
document, that may actually be or the CR/REC that replaced it)
* Latest Recommendation for This Module at This Level (which may be a null
reference if the module is new, but which allows you to go from Level 1 to
Level 1.1 -- or 1.2 if/when that exists).
* Latest Recommendation for This Module (may refer from Level 1 Core to
Level 2 Core, for example).
Of course this requires that a few more symbolic links or other
redirections be established at the server so we don't have to patch the
documents themselves to update these references. And we _would_ have to
patch the documents once in order to establish these additional links.
Another solution is to replace the "latest version" link with a link to a
central document which lists the latest WDs and RECs for the whole DOM.
This may actually make a lot of sense, now that the DOM has been broken up
into several documents; folks will want an easy way to link from Core to
Range, for example, as well as from Core Level 1 to Core Level 2. Again,
this would need a patch to existing documents.
It may be sufficient to just point everyone back to http://www.w3.org/DOM/
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Joe Kesselman / IBM Research